Future events and key dates

Friday 23rd May to Sunday 1^st June Half term.

Monday 19^th May L6th form examination leave commences.

Friday 13^th May 5^th Form examination leave commences.

Friday 9^th May Summer Term First Effort grades published.

Saturday 26^th April L4th Form GCSE information morning.

Tuesday 22^nd April L4th Form Parent’s evening 18:45 to 21:00 in the Sports Hall.

Lent Term News

Wednesday 19^th March The Easter Holiday commences after school today at 16:00. Have a lovely time together as families and a relaxing and enjoyable holiday. Congratulations to Philip Johnson who received his School Cap (Football) and Major School Colours (Rugby) from the Headmaster in this morning’s Routh Hall Assembly. Jake Burley received his Major Colours for Football. As the School team Basketball captain Odin Leung received the County trophy and also his major Colours.

Tuesday 18^th March Wendron- Gordon House End of term Assembly. Congratulations to the many boys who were commended for their support and participation in the varied house competitions and school life as a whole this term. Very well done to Jake Burley (Senior) and William Packwood (Junior) won the Endeavour cups for the this term. Junior and Senior House Colours for this academic year will be awarded at the end of the Summer term.

Monday 17^th March Junior House Football House. For the first time in some while we were able to put out an A and B team in a house competition; really pleasing to see and some good results too with the A team coming second overall and our B team 5th. Very well done to: A team Michael Cummings (Captain), Daniel Gaffney, Harry Gray, Christopher Johnson, Jack Roberts, Michael Smallshaw, Vladimir Tachev and also our B team: Daniel Bell, Jamie Birtle (Captain), Bernard Cho, Dave Chow, Dmitry Eremeev, Prankit Gupta, Alex Hung, Path Pippattanaskul, Adam Robertson, Keith Yau who competed so well in this afternoon’s competition.

Friday 14^th March Senior Interhouse Hockey. Well done to our team who played well this afternoon: Paul Diefenhardt (Captain), Jake Burley, Friedrich Conrad, Rohil Dattani, Edward Gaffney, Philip Johnson, Odin Leung, Thomas Lilley, and Georgy Nozhkin.

Wednesday 12^th Senior Interhouse Football. Well done to: Thore Bucking, Jake Burley Georgy Chadeneli, Paul Diefenhardt, , Rohil Dattani, Edward Gaffney, Martin Hartill, Philip Johnson (Captain) and Mike Wong.

4^th Form Assembly also took place this afternoon. Michael Smallshaw (Basketball) and Adam Robertson (Football) were highly commended for their contributions to junior school sport. Very well done to both.

Wednesday 6^th March Interhouse 1.2km relay competition. A good performance from the house this year. Thank you to: Thomas Lilley (Captain), Daniel Gaffney, Harry Gray, Georgy Nozhkin, William Packwood and Vladimir Tachev. Great spirit! Well done also to Mike Wong for his performances in the Pop and Jazz evenings.

Tuesday 5^th March Lent Term Second Effort Grades. Very many congratulations to the following for their hard work so far this half term:

Headmasters Commendations (by Dr Johns’ discretion): Thore Bucking and Evgeny Komarov.

School Commendations (average effort grade< 2.0):

Bryan Chan, Marco Chan, Adrian Cho, Bernard Cho, Friedrich Conrad, Dmitry Eremeev, Alex Hung, Javis Jin, Odin Leung, Gilbert Leung, William Packwood, Path Pippattanasakul, Andy Wang, Anthony Wong, Mike Wong, Keith Yau and Andrew Zhaoye.

House Commendations (average effort grade 2.0 - 2.4, no 4 or 5s or by Dr Johns’ discretion): Daniel Bell, Dave Chow, Edward Chong, Michael Cummings, Paul Diefenhardt, Prankit Gupta, Warren Leung, , Adam Robertson, Ryan Wong, Thomas Wong and Frank Xie

Friday 29^th February Senior House swimming. Very well done, second place overall for the Wendron-Gordon House team. A superb result for the house. Thank you to: Jake Burley, Paul Diefenhardt, Edward Gaffney, Philip Johnson, Gilbert Leung, Thomas Lilley, Georgy Nozhkin, Andy Wang, Nicholas Wang and Anthony Wong.

Wednesday 27^th & Thursday 28th February. Well done to Arsalan Sattari of his performance as Kim in the school drama production this term Last of the Great Romantics; a musical comedy of boy meets girl, romance, deception and mistaken identity.

Friday 22nd February. Very many congratulations to Friedrich Conrad who has been awarded a 16+ Academic Scholarship and also to Odin Leung who has won an Academic Exhibition. Both are prestigious awards within the school and it is therefore especially pleasing to see two of our current 5^th formers secure such accolades.

Wednesday 20^th February Thank you to our Senior and Junior Interhouse Cross-country teams who ran so well this afternoon for the House. Seniors: Martin Hartill (Manager), Simon Au, Thore Bucking, Edward Chong, Paul Diefenhardt, Mark Huang, Evgeny Komarov, George Nozhkin. Juniors: Thomas Allen (Manager), Joshua Bell, Daniel Bell, Bernard Cho. Harry Gray, Daniel Gaffney, William Packwood (3^rd Overall), Jack Roberts Grachik Shakhazizyan and Vladimir Tachev.

Nicholas Wang and Frank Xie visited Bath Abbey with the School Choir to sing Choral Evensong. The sound was by all account quite superb. Well done to both boys.

Thursday 7^th February A very happy Chinese New Year 新年快樂 from Wendron-Gordon House.

Well done to Prankit Gupta and Adam Roberson who have been performing for the last two evenings in the school’s production of Shakespeare’s tragic-comedy Twelfth Night. The two boys also read this morning in our weekly Chapel Communion service.

Wednesday 6^th February It was our turn to deliver Chapel this morning, the theme being Criticism. Thank you to Mr Baldock for his stimulating and interesting thoughts and also to Frank Xie who read so well to the school. Not a challenge to be undertaken lightly but one met in full by Frank.

Monday 4^th February Congratulations to Nicholas Wang who won the Senior instrumental music competition this afternoon. A superb achievement especially since it is the second year running he has won the competition.

Tuesday 29^th January Lent Term First Effort Grades. Very many congratulations to the following for their hard work so far this half term:

Headmasters Commendations: Thore Bucking and Evgeny Komarov.

School Commendations (average effort grade < 2.0): Bryan Chan, Marco Chan, Bernard Cho, Friedrich Conrad, Dmitry Eremeev, Mark Huang, Alex Hung, Gilbert Leung, William Packwood, Anthony Wong, Andy Wang, Ryan Wong Frank Xie, and Keith Yau.

House Commendations (average effort grades 2.0 - 2.4, no 4 or 5s or by Dr Johns’ discretion): Daniel Bell, Jake Burley, Dave Chow, Edward Chong, Rohil Dattani, Paul Diefenhardt, Henry Dong, Orkhan Hajiev, Danil Isaev, Javis Jin, Grady Lam, Warren Leung, Path Pippattanasakul, Adam Robertson, Arsalan Sattari, Marat Takabaev, Lecky Tong, Herman Wong and Thomas Wong.

Monday 28^th January Thank you to Arsalan Sattari and Friedrich Conrad who represented the house in the Senior Debating Inter-house Competition this afternoon. Against Housman Hall they opposed the motion “National Service should be re-introduced.” Well done to both boys who debated strongly. We await the result.

Sunday 27^th January Congratulations to Paul Diefenhardt who played in the National U18 Hockey competition over the weekend representing the School. Although the team made it to the final at the NIA arena they narrowly lost; despite this a superb achievement.

Wednesday 16^th January Well done to Adam Robertson who won the Junior Inter-house Singing House Competition with his rendition of Come Fly with me; a terrific performance.

Saturday 13^th January. Very well done to our Junior House Hockey team who played extremely well narrowly missing a place in the final of this afternoon’s Inter-house competition. Thank you to Daniel Gaffney (Captain) and the team Thomas Allen, Daniel Bell, Jamie Birtle, Dave Cho, Michael Cummings, Dmitry Eremeev, Harry Gray, Prankit Gupta, Christopher Johnson, Path Pippattanaskul, Jack Roberts, Adam Robertson, Michael Smallshaw, and Vladimir Tachev. Congratulations also to Adam Robertson who has won a place in the finals of the Junior Interhouse Music Competition which takes place on Wednesday next week.

News from Lent Term 2008

News from Michaelmas Term 2007